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# Ontbijtbroodje
- URL: https://onesandwich.com/ontbijtbroodje/
- Published: 2026-05-17T15:17:33.000Z
- Updated: 2026-05-26T13:48:41.000Z
- Description: Breakfast roll; any roll eaten at breakfast.
- Author: Andrew Lekashman
- Tags: Netherlands, Split Roll Sandwiches, Broodje van de Bakker & de Snackbar, #auto-imported

**🇳🇱 Netherlands** · Family: [Broodje van de Bakker & de Snackbar](https://onesandwich.com/tag/broodje-bakker/) · Bread: broodje

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Ingredients

broodje · butter · cheese (generic) · ham

An *Ontbijtbroodje* is a category rather than a single recipe: the breakfast roll, meaning effectively any *broodje* eaten at breakfast. It is defined by occasion, not by a fixed shape or dough. In Dutch practice the morning meal is bread-led and unhurried, and the *ontbijtbroodje* is the soft, individual roll that anchors it, distinct from the stacked sliced bread of the packed lunch and from the sweeter cake breads. Treating it as a role explains why it covers everything from a plain white roll to a seeded wholemeal one.

As bread, the make is conventional yeast-roll work. A wheat dough, often enriched lightly with a little fat or milk for a tender crumb, is proofed, divided into hand-sized pieces, and baked to a thin, soft-to-moderate crust. The target is a roll that tears and folds without shattering, with an open but not airy interior that holds butter and a filling. As a carrier, the job is to be a clean structural base: split, buttered to seal the crumb, and closed over a single straightforward layer. Good execution shows in freshness and balance: a roll baked that morning, soft enough to bite cleanly but firm enough not to collapse, with crust and crumb in proportion to the filling. Sloppy execution is a stale or rubbery roll, a crust so hard it fights the filling, or an interior so soft and underbaked it goes to paste under anything moist. The defining feature is gentleness; this is a roll meant to be eaten plain or near-plain, early, without ceremony.

Variation runs along the carrier role. The sweet treatment takes cheese or a thin layer of jam, chocolate hagelslag, or *appelstroop*. The savoury treatment takes a slice of mild cheese or cold cuts, sometimes a boiled egg. The bread itself shifts between white, wholemeal, and seeded versions, and on weekends a softer, richer roll often stands in. The specific morning fillings and the crustier rolls that overlap with the bakery's standard range, the *pistolet* among them, each deserve their own article rather than being crowded in here. What stays constant is the brief: a fresh, soft, individual roll built to carry one simple thing at the start of the day.

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## More from this family

Other [Broodje van de Bakker & de Snackbar](https://onesandwich.com/tag/broodje-bakker/) sandwiches in Netherlands:

- [Bolletje](https://onesandwich.com/bolletje/)
- [Broodje Gegrilde Groenten](https://onesandwich.com/broodje-gegrilde-groenten/)
- [Broodje van de Zaak](https://onesandwich.com/broodje-van-de-zaak/)
- [Broodje](https://onesandwich.com/broodje/)
- [Bruin Broodje](https://onesandwich.com/bruin-broodje/)
- [Dagschotel Broodje](https://onesandwich.com/dagschotel-broodje/)
- [Kaiserbroodje](https://onesandwich.com/kaiserbroodje/)
- [Lunchpakket](https://onesandwich.com/lunchpakket/)

[See all Broodje van de Bakker & de Snackbar sandwiches →](https://onesandwich.com/tag/broodje-bakker/)